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N. C. GREEN.

SKIRT ADJUSTER.

' No. 250,910. Patented Dec. 13,1881.

WITNESSES INVENTOR:

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NANNIE O. GREEN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

SKIRT-ADJUSTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 250,910, dated December 13, 1881.

Application filed September 24, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be itv known that I, NANNIE O. GREEN, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Skirt-Adjusters, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification.

The drawing is an elevation representing my improvement attached to a skirt, the latter being turned wrong side out.

The object of this invention is to provide skirt-adjusters that can be readily attached to and detached from the skirts.

The invention consists of two pieces of webbing provided with spring-clasps for securing the said webbings detachably to the edges of the skirt-seams, said webbings being provided with rings or eyelets to receive lacing-strings, by means of which the skirt is adjusted, as will be hereinafter fully described.

A B are two straight pieces of webbing, of such a length as to extend from a point about ten inches below the belt F to a point about the same distance from the lower edge of the skirt G.

To the inner edges of the webbings A B are attached rings 0, or in them are secured eyelets to receive the lacing-strings D, four rings or eyelets, C, more or less, being attached to each webbing A B. The lacing-string D is passed through the two lowest rings or eyelets O, is crossed and passed through the next two rings or eyelets G, and so on, and its ends are tied together after being passed through the top rings or eyelets C.

To the outer edges of the webbings A B are (NO model.)

attached ordinary spring-clasps, E, which are designed to be clasped upon the side seams of the back breadth oftthe skirt, as shown in the drawing.

With this construction the adjuster can be attached to and detached from a skirtin a few minutes, so that it can be readily changed from one skirt to another, and when attached will keep its place securely.

With this construction, by tightening and loosening the string D the skirt can be quickly adjusted as desired.

With this construction, also, the adjuster, being attached to the seams of the skirt, will not be liable to tear or wear the skirt, and will hold the said skirt without any unequal drawing, so that the graceful hanging of the skirt will not be affected.

1 am aware that a skirt-adjuster provided with eyes for lacing-strings and with hooks for engaging with rings on the skirt is old, and I therefore do not claim such; but

What I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As an improved article of manufacture, the

skirt-adjuster consisting of two straight pieces of webbing, A B, provided with rings or eyelets 4 G on the inner edges and with springclasps E overtheir outeredges, and the lacing-strings D, the said clasps being adapted to be clasped upon the side seams of the back bread ths of the skirt, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

NANNIE O. GREEN.

Witnesses J AMES T. GRAHAM, G. SEDGWICK. 

